Law Aims to Save Atlantic Fish Stocks
By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL
In the final hours of Congress early this month, legislators agreed
to vote in a new federal fishery management for the years ahead.
The Magnuson Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
oversees the way scientists, fishery managers and fishermen harvest one
of the nation's most valued resources.
The new legislation, a cornerstone for the way stocks are managed,
was passed by the Senate and voted by the House a few days later.
As a familiar stretch of Oak Bluffs waterfront continues its winter
hibernation, the sand unblemished by human footprints or
children's sand castles, plans are underway to breathe new life
into what was once one of the busiest beaches on the Island.
As a familiar stretch of Oak Bluffs waterfront continues its winter hibernation, the sand unblemished by human footprints or
children's sand castles, plans are underway to breathe new life
into what was once one of the busiest beaches on the Island.
The Black Dog Tavern Company, Inc. will pay a $50,000 civil penalty
for not reporting continued sales of children's hooded sweatshirts
after they were recalled for a strangulation hazard last February, the
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced this past Friday.
Commission investigators visited two Black Dog stores this past
August and saw that the recalled sweatshirts with drawstrings were still
for sale. The investigators purchased three of them.
May Season's Peace Start in Our Hearts and Spread Into Our
World
By REV. Dr. JOHN SCHULE
Special to the Gazette
Once again, it is that time of the year when the darkness is
shattered with the light of the angelic chorus: "Glory to God in
the highest, and on earth, peace, good will toward men." And yet,
as the sophomore class at the Martha's Vineyard Regional High
School recently reminded us in the Vineyard Gazette: "Peace on
Earth Remains Elusive."
Robert Gatchell doesn't mind the large utility bill
he'll have to pay for the six weeks between Thanksgiving and New
Years Day, when his otherwise normal house at the corner of County Road
and Carole Lane is transformed into a magical kingdom of caroling
penguins and dancing Santas.
Land Bank Authorizes Beach Management Plan Despite Neighbors'
Doubt
By IAN FEIN
Longtime Tisbury Great Pond beach owners told the Martha's
Vineyard Land Bank this week that its plans for the barrier beach will
drastically alter the traditional use of that stretch of the south
shore.
Island residents have long enjoyed casual use of the Great Pond
beach, but the land bank plan will create the first formal public
access.
It took just 13 minutes for the state of Massachusetts to end more
than 80 years of independence for the Martha's Vineyard hospital,
and transfer ownership to the state's biggest health care
provider.
Without management, the Mill Pond off Edgartown Road in West Tisbury
will look more like wetlands than a pond within the next decade,
according to the senior biologist in charge of a town-commissioned
report released last week.
Land Bank Acquires Aquinnah Oceanfront, Scenic Chilmark Field
By IAN FEIN
The Martha's Vineyard Land Bank this week added another 400
feet of Aquinnah white sand beach to its oceanfront holdings, and also
acquired a scenic field on South Road in Chilmark. Both up-Island
properties are roughly eight acres. The purchase prices were $2.25
million and $875,000, respectively.
